The Ratchadapisek Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a couple to 1,562 years in prison for embezzling Bt2.1 million through the use of electronic cash cards issued to Retailink (Thailand) employees to pay for petrol. However, Retailink employee Sudawadi Rodmanee and her boyfriend, Shell petrol station employee Pathorn Chingduang, ended up getting just 20 years in jail […]
Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Old Etonian prime minister of Thailand, was accused of crimes against humanity during military operations to break up the Bangkok riots earlier this year in a complaint lodged on Tuesday at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr Abhisit, who is expected to host David Cameron during the UK prime minister’s holiday in […]
A Thai woman has been found dead in a hotel room in the Phratamnuk area of Pattaya following a quarrel with an Iranian man who was also found at the hotel in an unconscious state. Police have detained the man, suspecting him of being connected with the woman’s death. Pattaya, 24 October 2010 [PDN]: At […]
BANGKOK, Oct 19 – Thai police on Tuesday arrested four Colombian men for burglary of the homes of wealthy Thais, while intelligence reports confirmed that the members of the Colombian criminal gang entered the kingdom in a single group at one time with the intention to commit crimes. The detainees were identified as John Alexander […]
BANGKOK, Oct 15 – An Iranian drug smuggling suspect was arrested with 1,550 grammes of liquid-formula crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ice, worth Bt5.4 million (some US$180,000) at Thailand’s main international airport, Customs Department director-general Prasong Poontaneat journalists on Friday. Jozvefazeli Hamidreza, 34-year-old Iranian national, was arrested Thursday night at the arrival terminal of Suvarnabhumi […]
A French suspected class 5 drug dealer was caught by Pattaya Police, in the early hours of Saturday Morning. Undercover Pattaya Police arranged to meet the target, Mr. Mourad Amellal aged 39, outside a 7-Eleven Convenience Store in front of the Flybird Condominium in Soi 17, South Pattaya. Mr. Amellal was found to be in […]
Fifteen Pakistanis suspected of collecting funds earmarked for use by terrorist organisations in their homeland have been arrested in Thailand, police said on Wednesday. Police were tipped off to the activity by a bank in the southern Yala province after the suspects tried to wire funds to a person in Pakistan whose name was on […]
Police have detained a young woman with possible knowledge about the bomb blast in Nonthaburi last week. Wasa Theprian, 25, was arrested yesterday for her alleged involvement in the explosion last Tuesday that claimed four lives and injured nine other people, two of them seriously. Wasa is the secretary to the House committee on anti-money […]
